The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-09-17
CURRENT TOPICS.

iHhRE Will De twenty newspaper men IN
the next Congress.
PRor. GOODS has taken charge of the q.
3. Fish Commission.
A GREEN two-ccnt stamp will soon re-
plac, the "barn-red" one.
THE oftener baseball players strike the
better the managers are pleased.
THE highest denomination of United
States legal-tender notes is $4,000.
DAVENPORT Is the onion market of Iowa.
Garlic also grows luxuriantly there.
A NEW bridge across the Tiber at Rome
Is to be named in honor of Garibaldi.
A GOLDEN street lamp, with a diamond
light, makes an attractive scarf-pin.
CREMATION of the dead will be in prac-
lice in St Louis within few months.
BILL NYE's five columns week in the
New York World are supposed to net him
$3.50. IA
CHICAGO is vaccinating her children
Tree OF charge at the rooms of the board
Of health.
From March 4, 1885, to August /, 1887,
there have been 45O new national banks
organized.
A DEADwooD judge ordered a jury fed
on bread and water until verdict could
be agreed on. .|. H
THE head of the Sultan's harem is now
Christian woman, beautiful, cultivated,
and Spaniard. .' .
A NEW Kansas paper has been named
the "hazzooper," which is interpreted to
mean boomer.
MISSIONARIES have, in the last eight
years, formed and reduced to writing over
forty languages.
BEES have Jared badly this summer,
being unable to make honey because of
scarcity of pasture.
THE first Polish newspaper ever printed
in America has been started in Buffalo. 1t
is called The 0jezyzna.
G. T. WRIGHT, of Baltimore, has been the
father of twenty-eight children, twenty
three of whom are living
A KNOXVILLE IN. W thief, one night
recently, dug fifty hills of potatoes and
then set out the tops again. ....
'SNAPpER"G GARRISON, the famous jockey,
has been engaged for the season of 1883 by
j. Is. Haggin, of California, at a salary of
$4,000.
The Grand Army of the Republic post at
Los Angeles, Cal, is to take four carloads
of grapes to st. Louis with it to give away
to visitors.
AN Albany man went around the city
borrowing aprons under the plea that his
wife wanted them for patterns. He is
locked up now.
HERMAN STRICKER, of, Reading, Pa, has
refused an offer of sl3, 900 for his collection
of butterflies; said to be the largest and
most varied in existence. ....,.. ,.....
The Canadian big thieves and defaulters
are coming to America for asylum. Can't
the two governments inauguratc scheme
Tor exchanging prisoners!' ....
VIOLENT rain and hail-storms have pre-
vailed in the northern part of England
and in Scotland, in many sections entirely
destroying the standing crops.
THE Toronto Globe says that the other
day calf belonging to Mrs. Joseph L.
Garrett of West Fallowtield, ate nineteen
young turkeys and wanted more.
The Chinese Government will send rep
resentatives to this country to make q
thorough study of the American system of
banking, coinage and postal affairs.
LITTLE girl was found by her mother
hanging to window sill twenty feet from
the ground in state of somnambulism At
Wakeeney, Kas., one night recently.
The mayor OF New York refused to allow
the Italian flag to be raised on the city hall
and says that while he is mayor no flag
shall ever be seen there but the American.
EDWARD BOVINE, who claims to be a son
OF ex-Congressman Bovine, of New York,
has broken leg and no money He boasts
of having spent SSO0,0OO for liquor in eight
years. Z"
Mr.. JOHN HURRAH, Of New Jersey, is
said to be man of somber and melan.
choly disposition. At any rate he has ap.
piled to the Legislature for change Of
surname.
BUFFALO has q woman contractor. Her
name is Mrs. A. NJ. Holloway and she has
just secured the contract for cleaning the
streets of that city for five years by a bid
of $447,0OO.
sHARP-EYED traveller reports that
within a year the Mormon women have
generally discarded their plain garb and
now appear as gayly attired as their
Gentle sisters. .H
The lifting of boys and girls for G work
by which they can earn an honest support
an after years is one not second in import
ance to any that can be done in the school.
room or elsewhere .. t. itsy Hlf|
The Vermont State Superintendent of
Education, In his statistics for the past
year, gives II ,402 as the number of schol-
ars enrolled, while the average daily at
tendance was but 45, ,705.
RIoH men have way of losing money
like other people. Mackay, the California
millionaire, is said to have lost six million
by the wheat deal, and he had it to lose.
The farmers got much of it. riiJi %" .!f
The velocipede is now universally used
by orderlies on foot service in Alsace- Lor-
raine. At Strasburg one of the military
sights Is the practice of the riders. The
tricycle. is deemed preferable to the BIZ
cycle.
CLARK SMITH, of Fort Supply, and Miss
Gussie Mason, of Fort Sill, two hundred
miles apart were married by telegraph.
The report says that ''every thing went
lovely and full ceremony was given by
means Of lightning" f u0[ t5
Miss FLORA BENJAMIN, of Cincinnati, is
the latest musical wonder. She can play
almost any instrument, and is especially
proficient on the piano, flute and violin.
She never took lesson in music.
a SYCAMORE TREE in Edinburg, Lawrence
County, Pa, is probably the largest tree
OF any kind in the State, as it measures
twenty-five feet in circumference at the
trunk. Only five feet from the ground it
sends out three huge branches. 4
A NEW York banker has had made
abroad. piano cover and stool, hand
painted by Tadema and embellished by
tt.<..~ a. tot as - ...XH